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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL-** 21,

1937.

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H. G. Wells Tells of His Four

Years' Fight

Fight Against

Against Ill-Health

DREAD DISEASE CONQUERED

FOR

four years Mr. H. G. Wells, Britain's most famous living author, has fought against the dread disease of diabetes and has fought successfully.

Diabetes, which has taken a huge toll of human life, threatened to cut short Mr. Well's career.

Mr. Wells conquered the handicap.

But

Recently he told a reporter year, are to be placed on a permanent

the whole story.

It was a vigorous, alert young - man of 70, who talked in a quiet voice, of a tremendous victory over suffering, in his beautiful London home overlooking gent's Park.

basis.

What he is agitating for, above all, is the recognition by employers that diabetes, properly treated, is not a disabling disease in workaday life.

"There are some 100,000 diabetics

the country to-day, and a lot of people are afraid to employ them Re-because they don't want a sick man

for woman on their hands," he said.

"My story starts four years ago," he said. "I was listless, dult, and Inefficient.

ENJOYING LIFE

"That is all wrong. Modern diabe- ties need not be more slack than a normal person. Indeed, they often better. "I seemed suddenly to have

lost

all

ALL

energy. Then I

discovered the cause-diabetes,

"I used to all moodily at home, re-

fuse to go out to dinner, and I ex- perimented on myself with a meagre diet of bread and milk.

I

ON

nre,

WELL, IF IT

ISN'T

THE ANZACS!

"By the exercise of will and in-Taking you telligence, they are able to keep well and they discipline them- selves into a normal life.

"Take my own case. Today I And work as much as ever I did,

"I am under no handicap when

abroad. Every morning I have a

"Nothing, I found out later, could long walk in Regent's Park. have been worse for me.

"MY SALVATION"

"At an early stage of the trouble I had the good luck to go to the head of a diabetle cilnle nt a famous Lon- don hospital. It was my salvation.

"I do not have to use Insun. My: trouble was tackled in good time. It was only necessary for the doctor to train me for a new dietary and ever since I have tried to observe it to the letter.

"You could not call it a strict or dimeult diet. It is what you might call an intelligent diet.

"There are certain foods and drinks which I must avold. When invlled ont I have to take my own choice from what my hostess offers me.

I must avold bread, sweet things, sweet wines and champagne. On the other hand, I can drink red wine and most spirits it I care to, and I can smoke.

"Breakfast and tea are the difficult meals, for it is then you may be tempted to cat toast or bread."

HIS GRATITUDE Grateful for the treatment he has received, Mr. Wells was instrumental in launching two years ogo the Dlabetic Association, of which he is the president.

Through this association, with its membership of 2,000, hun- dreds of poor sufferers are now able to have the best possible. treatment, and medical research Into the causes and cures of diabetes has been extended. Mr. Wells takes a keen interest in the welfare of child diabetics, for last whom holiday homes, staried

"WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH SUCH A NAUGHTY BOY, NURSE?"

"Don't scold him, Mrs. Hardy. He doesn't look well. Are you sure he is not constipated? Whenever a child is cross and peevish, I look at the If it is coated, or if the breath

is disagreeable, I know at once what is wrong. I always give 'California Syrup of Figs. That moves the bowels in a few hours and cleanses

the system.

"Children don't understand the importance of regularity. They get absorbed in play sad won't frouble. And it is only when they get thorough- ly cross and miserable that you real- ite that they are constipated. I find it saves a world of sickness and worry to give them a regular weekly dose. I would do that if I were you. With a natural laxativo like Cali- fornia Syrup of Figs" you can't go wrong.

"Doctors recommend it and give it to their own children, und wo nurses swear by it. Get a bottle of 'Call- .fornia Syrup of Figs” from the drug store and give him a dose at bed- Ume. He'll be as happy as a lark in the morning.

"Never experiment with cheap and drastic preparations when buying children's laxatives. The safest plan is to do as I do, follow the example of the doctors and give 'California Syrup of Figs."

"California

Syrup of Fiqs"

"NATURE'S OWN' LAXATIVE

"And I am enjoying life-as I have nlways enjoyed it.

RUSSIA

CAN BEAT OFF ANY ATTACK

TE claim that Russia is strong

enough to repel any attack single- banded was made by M. Maisky, the Soviet Ambassadar, recently.

Speaking at the second National Congress of Peace and Fellowship with the U.S.S.R. In London he said: /

"We are experiencing a boom in the modernised philosophy of the 'mailed fist.*

"It preaches the gospel of racial inferiority-a disgrace to our times- and lis manner in conducting foreign policy frequently resembles that chal- lenge 'your money or your life."

"The peace of Enrope is rather e a tiny Red Riding Hood be- set, not by one wolf, but by wolves from all four corners, while she stands fearful-in-the- middle."

"ANTI-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE" Russia considered that the danger of war in general and against the U.S.S.R. in particular had increased in the last 15 months:

"The German-Japanese rap- to the prochement, according most reliable Information, amounts practically to a military alliance against the U.S.S.R.

"During the last few years pur two

right back to

1915: Australian Army, Navy, Air Force Coronation contingent ar-** rived at Southampton re- cently in liner'Oronsay: Anzac

Day-Anniversary of Gallipoli landing-will be celebrated in Hongkong on Sunday next by wreath-laying ceremony at Ceno- taph (10 a.m.) followed by memo- rial Service nt Hongkong Union |Church; commencing 10.30 a.m.

'Flu Immunity Is In Sight

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald gave this answer in the House of Com- mong recently, In reply to a questions.

During the past year, he said, there had been further confirma- tion from different parts of the world that the influenza virus originally Isolated by the National Institute for Medical Hesearch in 1933 was the Infective ogeni which caused an epidemic of in- fluenza.

Married Men

Go Missing In Gay Paree

Paris, Apr. 15.

New Family Of Island

Universes Discovered

By U.S.

Scientists

WASHINGTON, APR. 10. DISCOVERY OF A WHOLE NEW FAMILY OF ISLAND UNIVERSES 2,000,000,000,000 .000,000,000, MILES AWAY THE MOST DISTANT OBJECT EVER SEEN BY MAN-HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED BY THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHING- TON.

The discovery was revealed by astronomers at the Mt. Wilson observatory in Californía, in a report on their work of the past year,-to-the-institution's trustees here.

Astronomers explained that the series of newly found universes is 200 composed approximately spiral nebulae, any one of which is comparable to our own milky way. The faint cluster has been christened "Hydra No. 1."

of

Only the most exacting observa- tion of the outer fringe of space led

Lo

the important discovery, Dr. Edward P. Hubble directed the work! of pointing the 100 incl Mt. Wilson Married men. form a great telescope toward the Bootis nebulae, previously the most distant object seen by astronomers.

frontiers have been made well nigh percentage of the 19.000 per- Impregnable by the great ortifica- liens, large armies equipped with all sons registered at the Bureau the modern appliances of war, and of Missing Persons at the Paris

by the huge Air Force.

"Our economie preparedness is also beyond question.

handed.

"There may be those who be Ilove that I am bluffing, but they would be unwise to ity their strength against ours, for maybe they would realise our strength too late."

with the authorities here, the figures pics of universes la now, no

5ft. 4in. Moustache

Still Growing

Another long moustache- claimed to be the longest in the world-must be added to the list of famous moustaches. The following catalogue in- cludes the latest claim:

Sft.

Mr. Mala- thangi, of Singapore.

2ft. Zin.-Janos Kontra, of Hungary.

9in. Mr. F. A. Botts, Wandsworth's retiring mace-bearer,

Mr. Malathangi want to bed ill, and did not shave for two months. When he found that his moustache was 10in. long he decided not to cut it. It grow and grow, and is still growing at the rate of an inch a month at each end. Two of Me. Betts's London rivals are Sir James Crichton Browno and Mr. J. Dean, chairman of Fulham Football Club.

By taking the long time exposures on photographic pintos und sorre 200

experts found some Prefecture of Police, it was re-nebulae beyond the Bootls scries,

Light which made the impression vealed recently.

of the

photographic plates left its

AGGRESSORS WARNED

Apparently there was more marital distant source 326,000,000 years ago, unhappiness in 1936 than in 1935 for It took all that time for the light o travel the tremendous distance even "We are strong enough to repel any

by any Paris police record that 3,300 wives though it raced at the speed of light, altack

on our territories

per second. foreign Power or combination of left home last year in contrast to the 186,000 miles Powers, and we can do this single- 2,055 who disappeared the year pre- The spiral nebulae were photo- graphed as they were at that dis- vlously.

tant -time. Since then, they have The total of 10,000 missing persons been flying away from our Milky is the largest figure ever registered way and outward into space at the estimated speed of more than 125,000 per second. Where this newly for 1035 being nearly 4,000 Teas.

or found Sixty per cent. of the persons report-

one knows, ed missing are eventually traced- Observers at Mt. Wilson observa- Russia's main pre-occupation, he sometimes within a few days and

also found a white dwarf star sald, was to prevent war, but they sometimes many years

Later Some, tory

during the past year which may have could not do so single-handed. notably husbands and wives, dis- the heaviest mass of any object in the appear, of their own volition and probably take up life under a new skies. This dwarf, called "Ross 027" tons, because matter la stripped down That made it imperative to seek name in a different city. Some are is very small but tremendously hot. to its bare nuclei and therefore gives A cuble inch of the material on the the highest concentration of weight Tured the reinvigoration of the League, und away and criminologists clolm although they were not universalists-that there is a certain percentage surface of such a star would weigh possible. United Press. al-any-price they would welcome of missing persons who have un- Germany and Japan back to the doubtedly been victims of mysterious League if they were determined to murders which have never been un- wark for peace.

covered by the police. "Europe has arrived at a point Authorities point out that they are where it has to make a final choice alarmed by the Increase in dis- between this way and the 'localisa-

o! 'appoarances

1930 minors. In tion of war plan-constant retreat there were 3,000 children listed affl- before the aggressor."

clally as missing. The police claim that the greater part of the minors who have been unaccounted for have disappeared since last July and it is thought that many boys, lured by adventure and romance of war. A horrifying experience on Cape Yorke Peninsula, North Queensland run off to Spain to join in the fight- described by Mr. Ewen Patterson in Ing. An average of three such cases áre reported dally to police author. the Empire Review.

itles-United Press.

EUROPE'S FINAL CHOICE

SNAKE ON A CHAIN

A certain North Queensland pros- pector went to bed leaving his walcht- dor, chained beside a tree.

When he woke in the morning his [dog had completely vanished, but the

chain was sit there.

Instead of dog on the end of it there was a 23-foot python which having swallowed the dog-now found [fself unable to escape,

the

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